Tooling 7 min read
Documenting Code with AI: Keeping Docs Honest
How to get AI coding assistants to write documentation that accurately reflects your code — not plausible-sounding summaries that drift from reality.
0degrees Team
Articles
Everything we know about building AI software that actually ships — written for engineers, no fluff.
Production 7 min read
Profiling First, Prompting Second: Using AI to Optimize Slow Code
How to structure AI-assisted performance work — what profiling data to share, how to frame bottlenecks, and how to validate that a suggested fix actually helps.
0degrees Team
Tooling 7 min read
AI-Assisted Git: Writing Better Commits and PR Descriptions
How to use AI to write commit messages, pull request descriptions, and changelogs that actually communicate intent — and where the workflow breaks down.
Josh
Tooling 7 min read
Using AI to Review Your Own Code Before It Ships
How to use AI coding assistants as a first-pass code reviewer — prompting for real feedback on code you wrote, interpreting what it finds, and fitting it into your workflow.
0degrees Team
Tooling 7 min read
Briefing AI on Your Codebase: The Architecture Context That Actually Matters
How to give an AI coding assistant exactly the architectural context it needs to write code that fits your project — without overwhelming it with noise.
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Agents 6 min read
Task Decomposition for AI Coding Agents: How to Break Down Complex Features
How to split a complex feature into agent-sized sub-tasks that execute reliably — with concrete patterns and scope rules that prevent drift and rework.
Josh
Fundamentals 5 min read
How LLMs Actually Work: The Mental Model Every AI Engineer Needs
The practical model behind next-token prediction, tokens, context windows, and sampling — the fundamentals every other post on this site assumes you already have.
Josh
Tooling 7 min read
Upgrading Dependencies with AI: A Systematic Migration Workflow
How to use AI coding assistants to navigate major library upgrades — feeding changelogs, mapping the breaking change surface, and validating the result.
Josh
Agents 7 min read
Steering a Drifting AI Agent: How to Correct Course Mid-Task
Practical techniques for recognizing when an AI coding agent has gone off track and redirecting it effectively — before it digs you deeper into the wrong solution.
Josh